PDF-[EBOOK] The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning

EBOOK The Fallacy Detective ThirtyEight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoningbrhttpskymetrixxyzbook097453157X. - Charles Sanders Peirce. Using Models of Reasoning. A Return to Logos. Reasoning from Specific Instances. Progressing from a number of particular facts to a general conclusion. .. This is also known as inductive reasoning.. Informal Fallacy Guide. Evaluating Arguments. The primary task of critical thinking is to identify arguments and to evaluate them.. There are two basic ways of evaluating arguments.. One technique is to evaluate the logical form of an argument by abstracting on its content, and analyzing the structure of the argument in order to determine if it is valid.. Thirty Years of Thirty Years of AeronomicalAeronomicalSignatures of the Signatures of the MagnetosphericMagnetosphericCuspCusp 2 Magnetospheric CuspsMagnetospheric Cusps Thirty Years of Thirty Years o illegitimate, controversial arguments or irrelevant points designed to enflame an audience. often identified because they lack adequate evidence to support a claim. Fallacies. . are. :. Why do they matter?. Beth . herold. What is it?. The Genetic fallacy occurs when we refute a claim solely based upon it’s origins. Also Known As: Fallacy of Origins or Fallacy of Virtue. “Genetic accounts of an issue may be true, and they may help illuminate the reasons why the issues has assumed it’s present form, but they are irrelevant to it’s merits.” – . Maddie Mount. Definition . This fallacy comes from assuming that because two things are alike in one way, they are alike in another way . Equation. X has property Y. Z is like X. Z therefore has property Y. Edgar Allan Poe. Adapted from. http://www.worlds-best-detective-crime-and-murder-mystery-books.com/1841.html. And . Originator of the Form. Edgar Allan Poe was the undisputed "Father" of the Detective Story. Fallacies.  are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. . C. an . be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant . points.. Easily . identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim. . Introduction of the detective. Crime and clues. Investigation. Announcement of the solution. Explanation of the solution. Denouement. Pattern of action in a detective story. The victim. The criminal. The character or characters who look for clues and solve the crime.. Crime. The problem the detective need to solve in the mystery. Usually a murder but any crime will work.. Clues. The evidence the detective looks at to find out who is guilty. They can be fingerprints, DNA, items left at the crime scene.. An attack on one’s opponent rather than one’s opponent’s argument.. Ad hominem. Reasoning from the similarity of two things in several relevant respects to their similarity in another.. Analogical reasoning. Sherlock Holmes. Detective Story. Poe . created the detective story. 1841 . Dupin. Brilliant. Solves by sheer mental powers. Eccentric. Prefers night to day. Burns candles. Elements of the . Conventional . Statements formed from sound thinking and proof of reasoning. Inductive Arguments. Specific Facts that lead to a generalization. Deductive Arguments. Begin with a general rule and reach a specific conclusion. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie , Lady . Mallowan. .  (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976). . was an English . crime.  . novelist. , . short story writer. , and . playwright. . She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives  .